Vincent Connelly, Ph.D.

Vincent Connelly, Ph.D.

Vincent Connelly, Ph.D., Program Lead and Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom.

Vince Connelly is a professor of psychology at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. He has many years of experience in research on literacy. He has published work on the interaction between reading instruction and reading development but is more recently known for his work on the development of writing skills. He has published work studying the difficulties that children with language learning disorder and dyslexia have with learning to write. He has organized a number of workshops with teachers and educational professionals to exchange views on the teaching of writing in the United Kingdom. He is a joint coordinator of the European Special Interest Group on Writing with Rui Alves.